US Patent Issued to Big Sky Financial on Nov. 4 for "Methods and apparatus for increased precision and improved range in a multiple detector LIDAR array" (Florida, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,202, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Big Sky Financial Corp. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Methods and apparatus for increased precision and improved range in a multiple detector LIDAR array" was invented by James E. Retterath (Excelsior, Minn.) and Robert A. Laumeyer (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer program products for acquiring three-dimensional LiDAR information of a scene are disclosed. According to one aspect, acquiring three-dimensional information includes emitting N pulses in a sequence with each successive pulse having a relative time shift to the sampling reference, thus producing a reconst...